skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Through consensus from a broad and diverse set of contributors

https://twitter.github.io/birdwatch/about/faq/

The first phase of this pilot will be limited to a small test group in the US

The pilot will start small and grow over time. Our goal is to admit applicants on a rolling, periodic basis. We will admit all participants who meet the required criteria, but if we have more applicants than pilot slots, we will randomly admit accounts, prioritizing accounts that are likely to participate due to having been recently active on Twitter, and those that tend to follow and engage with different tweets than existing participants do — so as to reduce the likelihood that participants would be predominantly from one ideology, background, or interest space.

Aah, the devil in the details.

we will randomly admit accounts, prioritizing accounts

And there's the catch.
> breaking up Google's search monopoly

Google has 90% market share still. I'd thus still call that monopoly unbroken.
The argument is that we’re working to keep a roof over our heads now because we YOLOed through college. And while that doesn’t describe me, I had a lot of peers who partied through college, skipped classes, hardly worked, majored in women’s studies / art history / literature / etc and still managed to live in the dorms, buy daily lattes, have the latest iPhones, etc.
Same here! LineageOS, Magisk, F-Droid and Termux are mandatory "sanity patches" on Android for me.
> When Rudy asks for discovery, it will either be provided or not. I suspect Dominion does not want to take it that far because any good lawyer can make a case for whatever they want given what discovery they get.

Discovery is a two-way street, and if “any good lawyer can make a case for whatever they want” with it, that gives Rudy as much motive to avoid discovery as Dominion.

In reality, facts matter, and even the best lawyer needs something to make a case out of (and even an unimpressive lawyer can make a case out of a smoking gun).
> or the author is totally full of shit

Bosworth's job is to come up with new flavors of Kool-Aid no matter what position he's officially in.
The US was hit about as hard as most comparable western countries in temperate northern climates. New Zealand is an extreme outlier, in another hemisphere and with a completely different climate, so the comparison isn’t really fair.
FSWatch and Git: A Simple Dropbox Alternative
Please see the second photo of the second link where US surgeon general tweeted "Masks are
NOT effective...".

I don't think they stood up to anything. We didn't learn much more.

We know masks work for a century, and these officials lied to prevent mask shortage.

It's very short-sighted and incredibly incompetent.

Did they know we could have worn cloth masks?
It's weird even when the medical doctor is trying to alleviate the same symptoms as the counselor? I think the way you put it simply sounds weird because a psychiatrist isn't the first doctor you think of. The concept isn't strange at all, especially considering the huge overlap in training.
Thank you! That looks very similar to what I have been idly dreaming of.
I hope at some point a congressperson asks pointed questions about this.

"Why would you send this? Is your company so out of control that you need to send memos like this to get people to 'do better' on privacy? Why are these decisions not being made by the executive team? Does your company care so little about privacy that such concerns are irrelevant to executives? Or is this some poorly-conceived ploy to place the blame on employees?"
One answer is given at gmedd.com, which presents analysis suggesting that even in the “bear case”, GME could be fairly valued at about $40/share. Disclaimer: I don’t know if their analysis is any good, but would like to hear your thoughts.
I just moved all my simple websites to Calliope which is very similar but you can self host it if you want or wrap it docker behind a load balancer or generate the static site.

[Calliope](https://calliope.site)

it's on [GitHub](https://github.com/ConflictingTheories/Calliope). It's designed for a simple clone and start.
"new project" means "apple car" or ???
Common folks who get in late in the bubble will be the ones who will suffer. This populist mindset that you’re somehow sticking it to big banks or something by paying for trading is funny.
> “We should become the undisputed leaders in providing privacy-aware software.”

Are they leaving the user information and Ads business?
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This reminded me of a beautiful animation of "Mitochondria: the cell's powerhouse" which I recently watched.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkYEYjintqU
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6956033-Lawful-Acces...

Lawful Access to Encrypted Data
By decentralized networking I’m going to assume you mean peer-to-peer networking. “Decentralized networking” would include the Internet.

All P2P networking is usually based on some form of key-based routing, kicked off by the discovery of distributed hash tables.

I’d start with the Wikipedia articles on DHT:

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key-based_routing

- Liz, Crowcroft; et al. "A survey and comparison of peer-to-peer overlay network schemes" https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2005/AdvSysTop/survey.pdf

- Guido Urdaneta, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. A Survey of DHT Security Techniques” http://www.globule.org/publi/SDST_acmcs2009.html

- Chris Lesniewski-Laas. "A Sybil-proof one-hop DHT" https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/sybil-dht-socialnets08.pdf

The unsolved problems in P2P networking are compact routing and Sybil resistance.

The cutting-edge for P2P networking projects is Yggdrasil, a fully end-to-end encrypted IPv6 mesh network that uses a spanning-tree to route packets. It’s the continuation of CJDNS. https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/about.html
For example, https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/12/21/fox-new...
Let me start off by saying the C2 is an amazing rower, but we thought we could improve on its design for the regular user who cares most about a fun and engaging experience. For example, the belt is industrial nylon (not plastic), the same material as seat belts. The main benefit to this is it makes the rower quieter and feels smoother. The rail is aluminum and legs and frame are made from steel, which makes it stable and is why the Aviron rower weights twice as much as the C2. Finally, it is selling for $1999 with taxes, shipping, and the screen included.
Does anyone else hear the echoes of Bill Gates "Trustworthy Computing" memo[1] in this? Granted, it wasn't written by Zuck which would have given it more "oomph" as they say, but still the idea that "Crap, this externally applied criticism of our product now has become too onerous to continue ignoring."

It would be a useful legacy if Facebook managed to impact the industry's privacy practices the way Microsoft impacted the industry's security practices, but I am not holding my breath.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/10-years-since-the-bill-gates-...
Provide evidence it won’t scale?

That kind of defeatist attitude won’t help either. You can’t create a systemic problem like this and then just shrug and say “it’s gotten too big we can’t stop it now”.
I remember reading a post on here about someone's home office lighting setup which had some insane number of lumens and was equivalent to being outdoors at dusk. That's when I became aware of the huge difference in illumination.
Are you trolling or being serious?
Key phrase here is - "we are not algorithmically amplifying content"

Trump (or Obama for that matter and such characters who suddenly appear out of nowhere due to their pandering to a fan club skills) cannot be propped up at light speed without algorithmic amplification. Read that again Trump and Obama are not possible without the Like Button and the algo amplification it enables.

That is the main lesson from the last 15 years. And apps that don't have reward mechanisms that prop up time wasting Pandering section of the population are not going to produce the side effects Youtube, Twitter and Facebook did.
You're not quite getting what I'm saying. A bubble like beanie babies and dutch tulips is still a logical consequence of seeking financial gain. A bubble is a game of chicken. It is about knowing when to jump off. This is a new phenomena. It is no longer about just making the bull thesis or the bear thesis. It is now persuasive to make the "this will fuck over a hedge fund manager" thesis. We need to add an entirely new animal to the metaphor.
Interesting article. The first thing that leaps out at me from the graph is: the bigger the country, the lower the trust. There are other trends, I'm sure, but that one is pretty clear.
> When cases are, as many of the Trump & allied cases were, thrown out for this reason, the court is making a finding on the merits ...

That's not the way lawyers use the term "on the merits". See, e.g., [0].

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/on_the_merits
That's not how it's been interpreted in courts in the past, they've taken it to mean that a violation of the terms of service can be a violation of the CFAA, https://www.rcfp.org/scraping-not-violation-cfaa/

Some cases have been found to not be a violation given a public API, but in the case of sync like this, it is not a public API. It's a public facing api but it requires authentication (the keys in question) in order to be used, this means that using google's keys without authorization from google to use them for that purpose would likely be seen as a CFAA violation by the courts.
> (2) Yes. IN EUROPE. I talked about Brazil. How many times is it going to take for you to understand that having good market competition in one place means absolute jack shit in another?

Obviously? Usually however, there's a reason why the fee is what it is. Have you dug into it? For instance in the US interchange is high because the vast majority of it goes towards rewards programs and loan origination costs. I'll be the first to admit don't know how that maps in Brazil.

However, read back to your earlier post: "(Something that I forgot to mention when you were talking about how Visanet has low rates in Europe: Direct debit cards - zero risk! - charge ~1.9% of the transaction value. Some of them charge a little bit less, but put a sizeable monthly rate on top of it.)"

Did you say anything about the rate being 1.9% in Brazil? No, the only geography you referenced was Europe, which is why I followed up with the, you know, European rate. It sounds like you should just be advocating for a fee cap in BR right?

You really haven't explained why TransferWise is worse than your recommendation, and you keep avoiding the whole "breaking the law and exposing yourself to prison time" bit.

I keep saying, you can keep the foreign currency in your TWB account, and send it to other people later, just like you hold crypto in a wallet. Why bother with DAI and USDC when you can just you know hold USD in your TWB account? A borderless account is a bank account, that you, in Brazil, can open, and hold all all those currencies with banking details in most of those places. For free, I believe!

Frankly, why don't I think people use TransferWise? Obviously I don't think they're dumb. It's new, I don't think they know about it. Borderless launched in 2018 and I suspect Brazil wasn't it's first supported destination. Getting the word out takes time. Read about it and let me know what you think!
I wouldn't resent destitute/at-risk people from receiving free therapy, especially if it lessened the tax bill that I will eventually pay anyway, but it's not hard to see why better off people might be irritated by this. therapy usually costs somewhere in the range of $60-120/hr, and it can be quite difficult to find a good fit that is in-network. I get paid decently, but if I went to therapy four times a month, that would already be my largest budget category after rent.
Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus
Right, but it must have been happening anyway, because there’s more shorts than shares available to buy. (I think?)
I got none of that without uBlock or noscript, thanks to pointing my router to ad-blocking DNS servers.
SEC doesn't actually do anything. Failures to Deliver for GameStop stock has been on the securities threshold list for more than a month and off and on for the past year. I believe OverStock was on it in the past for over a year at one point and the SEC did nothing.
This reeks of scientific hubris, to speak as if we know this to be fact.
I made over 100 trades
Power Partner Program Lets the City Control Your Thermostat
Upgraded to foam darts at some point https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/08/weaponized-tinderbox/
Why is this downvoted? Zuck decried leaks for years when "leak it to the press" became the only way for rank-and-file employees to affect change on contentious topics, particularly in the wake of Cambridge Analytica. Anything sent to employees these days is 100% expected to be repeated in the press and would be written with that in mind.
Damn, here I was thinking /u/DeepFuckingValue was winning by turning 53k into 13M, more than any of the jealous fucks here will make in their lifetime working their miserable engineering jobs and afraid to take any risks in life

https://www.reddit.com/user/DeepFuckingValue
>The argument is that we’re working to keep a roof over our heads now because we YOLOed through college. And while that doesn’t describe me

Nor me. I worked throughout all of undergrad. My work paid for my grad degree. I have an MSEE and am looking at $50k of student debt. My income is such that I expect the only way my debt will go away in the next ten years is through PSLF. Owning a house before I’m 40? I’m not so sure. Where exactly is the YOLO? The generation didn’t piss anything away. We’re getting shafted.
Well I did, and I'm a big fan of Haidt.
But we all know what the lottery is, sadly playing the stock market is glamorized beyond belief rather then shown for what it is:gambling
That’s a joke account, as you can see if you check out his posts in their entirety. Great troll though.
Thanks for the details! I tried your search string but could not replicate the exact bug (either app not working at all, or your error message). What is your setup and connection speed? Please feel free to email me instead at contact@ if you would prefer to preserve your privacy.

"Days of our lives" returns fine on the Search tab and times out (as I assumed it would, with such common words) on the Discovery tab because the broader plainto_tsquery is returning too many rows to rank in time.

...which made me think, Discovery ranks by random(), so I do not need to calculate ts_rank... time to push a quick fix!

Regarding pg_dump, I originally wanted to do this, but at 60GB a pop the bandwidth would be quite expensive if the thing got popular at all; I recommend you head to the repository [1] and build it locally instead.

[1] https://github.com/cordb/gutensearch
> you can't tell a useful benign app from an app trying to upload your life.

This is going to be an unpopular opinion, but it appears only 32% [0] of people care enough about privacy to switch to a service that preserves it.

I suspect an even lower percentage know that apps on their phones might even be trying to upload their lives.

This is not the source of "mistrust".

[0]: https://hbr.org/2020/01/do-you-care-about-privacy-as-much-as...
QQQ is a good idea until you hit a bear market. So live through 10 years of consistent positive gains every year in the market and you too can leverage QQQ to make millions. Taking lots of risk is good in a bull market.
You may have missed the invisible <sarcasm> tag on the post above.
There's a bit of survivorship bias in this response, some eras are a lot less forgiving than others. It would be disingenuous to claim that hard work is the only factor for success.
Will Facebook make login optional on Oculus then? What would be better for privacy than not requiring an account?

See? It is hard to believe this internal memo is not just a press release aimed to make people trust them more.
> The spirit behind the idea of "public figure" in defamation suits is that these things should not be allowed to become tools used by the powerful to protect themselves from the weak.

No, it's that enforcement of laws against defamation, as an act of government, should not intrude upon freedom of speech more than is essential to serve a compelling government interest, and that legitimate government interest is at its nadir when the issue involves restricting criticism on interests of public importance, which includes public figures (whether general public figures or limited purpose ones within the scope in which they are such figures.)
What that really shows is how much popular culture depends on large organizations which might not agree with you at a given time.
I really wanted an Oculus Quest 2 but there's no way I'm logging in to Facebook to use it, so not for me.
Try direct link instead of YouTube. Its also there in comment below.

https://pmdvod.nationalgeographic.com/NG_Video/772/995/14428...
Already questionable from the conflict of interest perspective, but options on top of it? Insane.
I’ve already had to reward the government and credit bureaus to get access to my data. I don’t see anything too different about rewarding this hacker just because the law doesn’t bless this sort of data extortion like it does the rest.
You're right - we could absolutely make some amazing products. I'm not clear on the cause.

>if that was the prime buyer consideration?

Buyers less willing to pay for higher quality up front.
Companies reducing long-term profitability through less replacements/maintenance.
Buyers can be manipulated through advertising, and reliability isn't exciting.

Probably a mixture of human shortsightedness and emotional response, and corporate incentives. There's probably some cultural/social context here as well.
people don't know just how hard it is to compound gains -- congrats.

Personal note: I really don't know why you would bring attention to yourself over this
No you gambled and got lucky. Good for you that’s great, but please recognize it for what it is. You played the market and won, just like people play the lotto, and some of them win too.
Agree with such skepticism but what are you replying to there? My comment was saying that it cached the cert check for a bizarrely short time (necessitating frequent network calls), not that the logs were retained for only a short time, which I agree is a bad defense.
I can make $200k selling covered calls every month with a few million in capital. Options prices are crazy right now. It makes you think about how silly money is.
That last sounds wildly implausible. Are you saying they booby trap it to set off the high explosive if someone tampers with it (making it a booby trapped dirty bomb)? Because otherwise there's really nothing stopping some dude with an angle grinder from getting the 'radioactive material' out in a day or two.

Generally this sounds nice, but I don't really believe it without some evidence of actually motivated red teams testing the system.
Today I noticed that Bad Bath and Beyond rallied 40% in the morning with no major news. It closed only +1.5%. I was wondering what's going on. I think that's one warning sign not to invest in companies that often flactuate greatly with no major news. It often happens with small companies so it's good to stay away from such companies. But BB&B seem to have a market cap of a few billions so it's not expected.
"diversified" "buy and hold" investing in the stock market is not gambling.
Comparing revenue might make sense if they were in the same slice of retail, but they aren't, so I think you can take zero value from such a comparison.
Seconded. This should have been written in Rust.
It sounds like new regulation before we begin 'pricing it in'

But I love the thoughts and agree with the analysis
I thought that the parent made an interesting observation.

It's not cynicism, it a simple fact, backed up by history, of what happens when nobody trusts their government, when a the government of a people deviate too much from the interests of those people and making their lives more difficult instead of less, when all of that goes too far.

This can lead to reform. It can also lead to instability. It doesn't matter whether a country is "developed" or not. Developed countries can still have corrupt governments that are not responsive to their people, civil wars, etc. It can happen quick, or take a long time.

The stakes are high. Can enough of us agree on how to fix our problems? I don't know. I think that removing corporate and union money from politics would be a good first step, which is what most other countries already have done. Beyond that I wonder if we've grown our federal government too far past it's design specifications, expecting whoever is president this year to fix all our problems, leaving the other 49% of people very upset.
> On the other hand, 99% of all websites get little to no traffic. Maybe this is the difficult part you should be optimizing for instead?

Well, the sites I'm talking about get enough traffic that if they are down for a few minutes people notice, and a single wordpress server isn't enough to handle the traffic ;). If you have little to no traffic that's less of an issue.
I‘m sticking with my iPhone 6.

I like to listen to podcasts for falling asleep, while charging it. And simply connect it to my 20 year old Hifi system. I fail to see why using a y dongle for connecting a headphone plus the charging cable would make my life better.

I like the form factor, too. I guess the only other choice would be an iphone SE.

I once spend a few bucks on a new battery. Otherwise, it is a perfectly fine phone, used (too) many hours a day by me for years and it‘s still almost pristine. It just works. I don‘t see why one should throw it on a dumpster. If it was a bit faster and had a bit more memory it would be the perfect phone.

But if they come with an upgrade, have a headphone jack would be the killer feature.
> let alone so reliably.

To be fair it sometimes does not work and we end up with deformed babies.
Why it matters:

The ice-water phase change absorbs much more heat than heating water by 1 degree. The energy required for that phase change, called the 'enthalpy of fusion', is 333.55 Joules/gram. This is huge compared to the energy required to heat 1g of water by 1 degree, 4.18 J.

In other words, the ice 'cold bank' is much more of a cushion for temperature change than water is. One metric ton of ice is one million grams. The phase change melt absorbs 333 million joules ... the energy in about 2.8 gallons of gasoline. Multiply that by 28 trillion.

The bank is emptying.
I'd highly suggest Syncthing over this solution - no need to rely on 3rd parties for your data storage, let alone trust them with unencrypted copies of your data, if someone malicious worked at DigitalOcean and wanted to compromise you, it'd be trivial to put a malicious script in your Vault files. Especially if deplatforming is a concern something like Syncthing would avoid any reliance on a 3rd party that has visibility into your data.
Well it might work with Windows Subsystem for Linux, haven't tried yet though.
My girlfriend speaks Hebrew so I'm well aware :)
False. You have no idea about the trades I made. People are brainwashed, you can make money in the market. I made over 100 trades
> prioritize privacy as they built their products, even to the detriment of the user’s experience.

It's not a "Shift" so much as a wiggle. They are willing to sacrifice the users experience... what about profits? Are they willing to prioritize privacy over profits?

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Crickets.

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.